Alberta Freshman, Interviews with Jews in Utah, Accn 998

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. a lbe a r ::.11• • p.l/ L your combinations 100% and you ~accurate. J And then later on, they were able to bring calculators to school and they didnt' use theirheads so much.~nd they didn't have to be perfect in combinations and in s~elling. We had high standards in writing.~d I think you've heard high school teachers and collge professers complain about students t4At are freshman>cna't spell, can't write1 ~d inthose days, we had tests that were mainly essays. That they'd have to write answers. ~nd then toward the end of my career, it was all objective tests . Yes. No. Fill in the empty space. ~1ultiple choice. That sort of thing. And I thir(lthat's one reason too why they can't write in prose andessays as well as they used to. And Jeven in the 4thgradeJyears back, students would have to compose a good beginning sentence and a good ending sentence. And ~t~entences in between would haveio add to their beginning sentence. Because they were very strict about it. First orally and then written. We used to teach outliningJwhich is really hard,And_the people that • you w~ expected to see that your students did well on ~e th1ngs that you weretaught,nthey were taught. And you could just see that not that was expected at t•'tt~ ~"-" And that bothered me. So I became a librarian. And I didn't like all of that1 because I don't like humdrum sorts of work.~d a lot of librarians had to do the processing of the books,the ordering of the books, and that part I didn't like at all.But I liked the creative part, where you could give book talks and leave the est= rest of the book ini.e air and they were so anxious to read to the end to know what happened that they would clamour to be the first one to get the book! And we had puppet shows that they performed in. And things that were fun to do. Dramatizations.Postermaking. DiGramers that they made about books. And yo'd take quite a bit of time in finding out what a youngster was checking out and whether he could read it when he checked it out. So it was very time consuming. But that's~ the~rt I liked. I didn't like the part where you had to do all the routine part. As years wenieon and I helped my sister-in-law, that processing was done ~the main office. But they would do it the way it was done in high scholJso you'd have a 921.365 well elementary schools didn't have in the t~ processing such big numbers. We'd get it in the class like thf921 which was bography,but we wouldn't put allthe decimal points and all the numbers afte0 because it's too confusing for the little youngsters. A 1 so the ethics of grown-u~ changed. Going out, how tiid men and women behave with each in the 00s and 30s on a date A ~tlhe goups in which I went, it \'las much more formal.~d we did some experimenting with drinking and so forthJbut not to the exces thatyou have now. And we certainly didn't show our emotions as much as they do now in public. It wasn't considered correct behavior Jr for young men and women. We had fun. L You mean to embrace or f kiss. A ~ Yes, in public. We-ft-wasR!t-eeRstee~ we didnt do that. We could hold hands, but not more than that. And then we· were chaperoned more when we were just